Adriana Reads

I won this novel through First Reads, and I absolutely loved it. This was such a well wrought novel with beautifully crafted sympathetic characters; it was a genuine pleasure to read. It reminded me of some of the darker stories by Maggie O’Farrell, only much bleaker. That’s both good and bad. Delphine de Vigan so perfectly captures the despair of day-to-day existence when you live in a big city and feel disconnected from everyone around you.

Two people, strangers to each other, Mathilde and Thibault, go about their day. It is exquisitely heartbreaking to accompany them as they force themselves to make it through yet another day. Both are desperate to connect to someone else, and they would both obviously benefit from having each other in their lives. And then their paths finally cross. . . .